VAR has been a spectacular fail for football

The idea was that it would get rid of all the controversy and make sure that all the decisions were correct and everyone would be happy.

Instead we now have every single manager of every single premier League team complaining after every single game that they lose. And they are complaining that a decision went against them based on VAR (how can that possibly happen when we were told VAR is the solution?)

Any decision made by var: "why are we letting var get involved on that kind of incident?" Any decision not given to a team "why didn't var get involved?"

The year the referees didn't go to the screen "why aren't we letting the referee make the decision by looking at the screen?" Now they go to the screen "what's the point of them going to the screen we all know the decision anyway?"

The football media (and managers) are obsessed with var (and don't understand it most of the time) and are whipping up all stupid fans into a frenzy and instead of refs getting less criticism they are getting more criticism/abuse than ever before and it is an easy excuse for teams to explain why they lost a particular match. See Steve Cooper this weekend.

So not only do we have more controversy than ever before but it has ruined the flow of the game for the match going fan. A total flop.

Posted By: Charles21 on November 28th 2023 at 09:29:18

Message Thread

someone is going to explode with happiness if this happens (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Nov 28, 07:17:37
- Seems like they don't want to address the elephant in the room. (Other Football) - usacanary, Nov 28, 12:34:05
  - Football should invest in AI to run the VAR booth (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 12:39:21
  - Do NFL or rugby players constantly try to con the officials? (n/m) (Other Football) - jamesward, Nov 28, 12:35:18
    - They are also ridiculously simple games (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 12:43:39
      - Or maybe the higher quality officials make it look easy and seemless. (Other Football) - usacanary, Nov 28, 15:27:00
- One part of this sounds good (Other Football) - Old Man, Nov 28, 11:59:37
  - As norway says (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 12:12:29
  - Problem with challenges is they could be used to stop a counter-attack (Other Football) - jamesward, Nov 28, 12:03:21
    - ...but what if the other side score before the ball is dead? Yeah, I see that, tbf (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Man, Nov 28, 12:06:44
      - The challenge creates a fixed point in time. (Other Football) - megson, Nov 28, 13:35:19
- We absolutely need VAR in the game, but for (Other Football) - Nelsons final flanel, Nov 28, 11:19:50
- VAR has been a spectacular fail for football (Other Football) - Charles21, Nov 28, 09:29:18
  - I've got the answer. It should be run by a select group of football fans who understand (Other Football) - Chris Peacock, Nov 28, 10:02:19
  - The main problem, as ever, is that footballers cheat (n/m) (Other Football) - jamesward, Nov 28, 09:40:57
    - Perhaps the answer is (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 09:46:47
      - One match ban for going down too easily (Other Football) - jamesward, Nov 28, 10:32:36
        
        I'd love something like that (Other Football) - Old Man, Nov 28, 12:02:31
  - VAR won’t make managers less (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 09:30:24
    - thick (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 09:31:13
      - Exactly, so it's a waste of time (Other Football) - Charles21, Nov 28, 10:04:39
        
        Non thick people do (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 10:08:17
- Only for Clear and Obvious Errors... (Other Football) - Bonzo, Nov 28, 08:41:37
  - Yet to see any group of fans not celebrate a goal (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 09:15:58
    - Fan who doesn't go to games doesn't understand (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Nov 28, 10:56:03
      - I appreciate everyone still celebrates goals (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 11:03:34
        
        Like I say. Not being at games really doesn't help you here. (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Nov 28, 11:13:56
        
        It's more not celebrating a goal as fully as before for me Clive (Other Football) - jamesward, Nov 28, 12:02:10
        
        The speed and communications clearly needs improving (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 11:18:47
    - It's more difficult to tell watching on the telly (n/m) (Other Football) - Adster, Nov 28, 09:36:13
      - Easier because you get a full view of the crowd (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 09:49:50
  - Used correctly it's a definite yes, for me. (Other Football) - Cardiff Canary, Nov 28, 08:50:38
- Assume that’s the VAR talks (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 28, 08:09:26

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